Solutions in 10-Gigabit and Beyond for the Data Center 10-Gigabit Ethernet is not news anymore. The 10-Gigabit standard (known also as 10GbE or 10 GigE) was approved in 2002 and for the past couple of years there is almost no major vendor, which does not offer 10-Gigabit mass solutions. Cisco, 3Com, Nortel, Sun, Alcatel and many other large and small vendors all come with 10-Gigabit offers for data centers of all sizes.